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I have Disco Dingo (19.04) and APT said the some packages should be removed. I agree, thinking APT knows what's it's doing. It deleted a few packages such as linux-generic and other linux dependencies. The computer froze. I force-restarted, and upon it booting up, there was no wifi, bluetooth, camera, etc. All of them say "No device detected" or something like that. Do I need a fresh install?

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    apt follows the rules provided by sources you provide, so I'd take this chance and look at your sources for probably unofficial sources you've added which had package versioning that created the condition, and be careful of them again (unless you're wiling to read the messages before adding/removing packages & assess what it's going to do). The apt history (/var/log/apt/) will be useful; including clues possibly on how to fix. When you force restarted? did you do so using sysrq keys (ie. clean shutdown), if not I'd start by fsck your partition (from live) & progress from there...
    – guiverc
    Aug 23, 2019 at 22:54
  • All sources are either ubuntu official, or Steam. I force restarted for hold my laptop's power button for 10 seconds.
    – CZMG
    Aug 23, 2019 at 23:05
  • Apt doesn't recommend critical removals out of the blue. There is likely more to this story.
    – user535733
    Aug 23, 2019 at 23:08

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I have fixed it. Thanks for your help. I had to do a fresh install but that's better than spending my weekend working on fixing it. In the end, I found out I had a corrupted boot partition that didn't load in the proper linux modules to use the features that weren't there.

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